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Crepuscular Gloaming

This came up at work (indirectly via ‘petrichor’). What a great phrase! Unfortunately, I don’t think it works in LitRPG. Epic Fantasy, hell yeah. After saving the damsel, showing up the knights, and receiving accolades from all and sundry, the intrepid heroes rode off, soon fading from sight in the crepuscular gloaming. Needs more adjectives.…

Introspection

I swear that I have some sort of sleep disorder. I was tired last night, so I went to bed an hour early. I’m now awake; two and a half hours early. Anyway, this is not about my introspection. It’s about character introspection. Our intrepid squad (although they’re not known as that, yet) has been…

88 feet per second

60 m/h * 5280 ft/m * 1/60 h/min * 1/60 min/sec = 88 ft/sec. “In the head math” rounded 5280 to 6000 to make all come out even. 100 ft/sec is decently close (for most things). What brought that up? The concept of “following distance” while driving. Distance is important, but it’s a second order…